How Can Airports Fight Back Against Drones?
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There are also risks of doing nothing. It's a cost/benefit issue more than anything else, but legislative maybe has to come first: empower airport police to take action.
I think we're in an undeclared asymmetric war. Arson attacks, test runs, sovereign citizens being encouraged to take direct action against infrastructure. People are wierd, people are gullible, people are impressionable and people are angry and motivated. It's easy pickings for state actors to do arms length actions. "Here, take this smelly rag and stuff it under the nose of this person at an airport for a prank on secret camera tv" actually happened: it was a nerve agent.
Former soviet Republic nations flags being waved by .. pacific Island noumean independence rebels. Iranian agents paying Australian crime gangs to commit arson attacks against synagogues. This is not normal.
We are now in a place where it is cheaper than ever and even easier to set up attacks from afar https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/23/russian-sp...
What prevents me from filling the air with seemingly white noise with an encrypted digital data in it?
Against the drones, that would be difficult to prevent, but the limitations imposed by the transmitter gear (size, weight, inverse square law of area being jammed) would probably limit the impact.
The dedicated platform would be located via signal strength analysis and likely physically destroyed.
Not in the context of an airport security.
Mine was that the noise generation was part of the adversary's actions (as is the presence of the drones themselves).
Are you suggesting that the noise (+encrypted data) is part of the airport's standard procedures, and authorized users pick out (and decrypt) the data, and everything else (like Command & Control) of adversarial devices is overwhelmed by the overall noise?
(Not my core field, so this is SWAG-ish): There is also a separate but equally important problem of signal vs noise - isolating the signal for decryption. Doable, but fairly costly to implement, and far more brittle than I suspect would be acceptable.
prolly better to have peace overwhelm peoples desires for revenge and mayhem, but I am thinking there will be an upswing in billionares building bombproof stuff, and a lot of mayhem happens before peace breaks out